Here's the (hopefully) final first light image from the AP140EDF last weekend. I collected some Ha and Oiii as well as the LRGB data on the SMC and managed to blend it all together in a way that I thought was pleasing. The narrowband data certainly shows a lot more stuff going on in the SMC. The LRGB image looks quite calm and serene but there's obviously a lot going on under the hood!
Details are...
Scope: AP140EDF/reducer = 771mm FL
Mount: AP900
Camera: U16M
Filters: Astrodon E series Gen 2 LRGB, 3nm Astrodon Ha and Oiii
Guiding: Lodestar / Borg 50mm guide scope
Image scale: 2.41 arcsec/pixel
Exposures: 21x600s L, 6x900s R, 6x900s G, 6x900s G, 7x1800s Ha, 6x1800s Oiii (14.5 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8
The attached small image is hopelessly compressed. There's a large version on Astrobin:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/212006/B/
The original LRGB version is here:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/211572/0/
Cheers,
Rick.